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Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]

… of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency sociability with regard to gender and social rank. Critiquing earlier notions of polite sociability, her fictions recognise new sites of provincial … and amongst new communities emerging in the digital realm. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés provincial sociability Gender performance courtship social rank Public sphere leisure economy The Sociable Jane Austen Jane Austen’s early life, … of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency sociability with regard to gender and social rank. Critiquing earlier notions of polite sociability, her fictions recognise new sites of provincial …

Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… missing in their relationships with men. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés Women Friendship English literature Gender roles The English literature of the long eighteenth century offers abundant portraits of female friendship as a … such image ‘two and a half centuries later, has not fully been shaken’. 3 . Rachel Carnell, 'It's Not Easy Being Green: Gender and Friendship in Eliza Haywood's Political Periodicals', English Faculty Publications (vol. 24, 1999) … as well as the many functions they served. Given the social pressure for a progressively more rigid separation of gender roles (and apt spaces for such roles), Todd argues that female communities ‘nudge women into development, where …

Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]

… enacted during this period. Concepts > Antagonism & Resistance Mots-clés false friendship enemies Politeness betrayal Gender candour dissimulation reputation female friendship Civility Friendship held an important place in social … (2nd ed., London, 1625), p. 21 9 . Athenian Mercury 6, Issue 29 (26 March, 1692). The perils of false friendship had gendered connotations. The natural sincerity associated with women, meant that female company came to encapsulate many of … to affect the contrary: This by a more proper and restrain’d Name is call’d Deceit’. 16 10 . Lawrence E. Klein, ‘Gender, Conversation and the Public Sphere in Early Eighteenth-Century England’, in Michael Worton and Judith Still …

Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]

… complementary of one another. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Mots-clés loneliness Religion Social relations Conversation Gender roles Politeness melancholy privacy In 1711 Joseph Addison spoke of his vision for his new periodical, The … thy Closet’: Women, Closet Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel’, in John Styles and Amanda Vickery (eds.), Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700‒1830 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, … a conversation with her for any time’. 11 Ryder’s derisory comments about his sister’s lack of knowledge underscore the gendered implications of solitude at this time. 11 . William Matthews (ed.), The Diary of Dudley Ryder, 1715–1716 …

Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… and usurping state power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the … (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1989), p. 586. Class was not the only factor producing separate clubs. Gender was as well. Women’s clubs developed early in the Revolution, often as adjuncts of male Jacobin clubs. They … clamp down on the clubs, which had become intensely factionalised.  9 . Katie Jarvis, Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), especially chapters 5-6; Olwen …

Touch and sociability [ Communication ]

… and were seen by women as putting them at risk of further and fuller violations. Practices > Communication Mots-clés Gender body sensuality touch kissing signaling In The Miser Married (1813), Catherine Hutton’s heroine, Charlotte … and variations, simultaneously masking and refining issues of attraction and desire.  My discussion focuses on binary gendered relations as a wide normative standard – without prejudice to other forms of contact and relations, which … Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Fletcher, Anthony, Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500-1800 (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995). Gowing, Laura, …